Iva Ticic’s Perfect Poems: Springtime
Happy Spring! This one is for children who like it when things melt, new things blossom, temperature rises and short sleeves are in again: Welcome to Spring! To celebrate the new season I’d like to offer you a beautiful, fun poem for the occasion. Let these lines roll off your...
The Last Leaves Falling
The Last Leaves Falling is the story of Abe Sora, a Japanese seventeen-year-old diagnosed with ALS. Over time, the disease causes Sora to lose basic motor functions, such as the use of his legs and arms. Eventually, it will kill him. Sora turns to both the past and the...
Kids and Poetry: Reinvention at the Kitchen Table
The first time I gave a creative writing lesson to young children was a complete accident. I was babysitting a brother and a sister in Brooklyn and one of the things I was asked to do was to help them with their homework, involving a certain poem in a...